Halftime-ish at England vs Italy and no goals so far. Been perhaps the most competitive quarterfinal so far. Winner has to play get many though – not much of a prize. Update: well that turned out to be a bit of a bust of a game. Italy deserved the win for dominating the game and yet – letting things slide to PKs was inexcusable. I really hate PKs as a tie breaker. MLS: The DC – NY game was entertaining at stretches but disconcerting to see the DC midfield sliced up so effectively. DC did not play well enough to …
Another “I’m only bringing this up because I’m re-reading comic archives” post — this one about Kate Beaton’s Mystery Solving Teens characters. Taking a somewhat staid cultural item, whether it’s history or a fictional character or book and applying a veneer of knowing sarcasm over it is the bedrock of Beaton’s sense of humor. She can also deftly point out the absurdities of the original situation or character. For the Hardy Boys, turning the rather adult-like teenage stars of those books into rather modern, slacker teens flips the premise sideways. Why would these teens solve mysteries? Why in the heck …
I’m not really in need of a means to post webcomics right now but if I were… I’d be pretty excited about Phillip Hofer launching Comic Easel which is a brand new plug-in built from the ground up to work with Word Press 3.0+ and any of its gazillion themes. Hofer was the primary developer on the venerable ComicPress theme for WordPress in its later years (that effort was created by Tyler Martin). He’s going to be on the WebComic Beacon podcast this Sunday – June 24th at 12pm est — so I encourage everyone to check it out and listen to it …
So still playing with Comic Rocket and so far still pretty happy with it. Of course it’s got a lot to do in terms of additional wants and needs but I’m far happier with them building a great reading/tracking tool for me than for me having to do it for myself (and considering I’ve toyed with the notion for over a year now, who knows if I’d ever have gotten something finished). It’s also for better or for worse given me a great excuse to re-read some favorites. Right now I’ve been checking out the start of Dumbing of Age, …
Theodore Roosevelt was a complicated man alright. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and genuine believer in the virtue of warfare. Those last two panels are brilliant.
Maybe comics still needs more popular respect as an art form (rather than as a development platform for superhero movies) but this is certainly a sign of respect from our nation’s curator of literature and culture. I don’t normally post press releases but what the hey: SPX Acquires the Dean Haspiel Collection and Other Mini-Comics for the Small Press Expo Collection at the Library of Congress Bethesda, Maryland; June 17, 2012 – Small Press Expo is pleased to announce that Dean Haspiel has generously donated his mini-comic collection to the Small Press Expo Collection at the Library of Congress. The …
Why isn’t Subnormality better known? Or maybe it is, maybe it’s just me that has found it, and then missed it long enough to find it again (and repeat a couple times).
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